Nathalie Katsonis

Nathalie Katsonis received her PhD (2004) degree from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). Her investigations of the interplay between motion, light and molecular machines started in the group of Ludovic Jullien, where she researched the chromophore that initiates the flagellar movement of purple bacteria. For her postdoctoral research she moved to the group of Ben Feringa to investigate chirality and order in supramolecular assemblies.

Since March 2020 she is professor of chemistry at the Stratingh Institute of Chemistry of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), leading a research group dedicated to 'Active Molecular Systems and Materials' (www.katsonis.eu).

Katsonis has pioneered the transmission of directed molecular motion across length scales, with a particular emphasis on the impact of chirality and the effect of mechanically-relevant molecular machine motion. Her achievements have set the stage increasingly complex functionalities in dynamic and, ultimately, life-like materials.